Josh and I dated for several years in the late 1980's, when I was at Barnard and he was in grad school at Columbia. We met in the summer of 1987, through my friend Brien Riley, with whom Josh was then sharing an apartment on 101st St near Central Park. That area has changed a lot since then -- but we had some very happy times there; I remember in particular being with Josh in the crowd around the Jazz truck when it came to 100th St in the summer. I remember another night - maybe the same summer, my first spent in New York City, I think - when we were part of the huge crowd standing on the east river drive to see the July 4th fireworks. Somehow we were right up front -- and I remember his arms around me & how blown away I was by those gigantic, colorful explosions.
